Hilary Putnam (1926–2016)
Autor(a) de Reason, Truth and History
About the Author
According to John Passmore, Hilary Putnam's work is a "history of recent philosophy in outline" (Recent Philosophers). He adds that writing "about "Putnam's philosophy' is like trying to capture the wind with a fishing-net." Born in Chicago and educated at the University of Pennsylvania and the mostrar mais University of California at Los Angeles, Putnam taught at Northwestern University, Princeton University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before moving to Harvard University in 1965. In his early years at Harvard, he was an outspoken opponent of the war in Vietnam. Although he writes in the idiom of analytic philosophy, Putnam addresses major themes relating science to ethics and epistemology. If these themes are reminiscent of David Hume---as, for that matter, is much of analytic philosophy---his treatment of them is not. Putnam's work is far more profoundly shaped by recent work in logic, foundations of mathematics, and science than would have been possible for Hume; Putnam has contributed to each. He differs from Hume and stands more in the tradition of Willard Quine and American pragmatism in his treatment of the crucial distinctions between analytic and synthetic statements and between facts and values. Both distinctions, sharply made by Hume, are claimed by Putnam not to be absolute. He attempts to show, for example, that basic concepts of philosophy, science, and mathematics all are interrelated, so that mathematics bears more similarity to empirical reasoning than is customarily acknowledged. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Séries
Obras por Hilary Putnam
Pragmatism as a Way of Life: The Lasting Legacy of William James and John Dewey (2017) 22 exemplares
The End of Value-Free Economics (Routledge Inem Advances in Economic Methodology) (2011) 4 exemplares
"Brains in a Vat" - H. Putnam 3 exemplares
Two Philosophical Perspectives 2 exemplares
It Ain't Necessarily So 1 exemplar
Realismo del volto umano 1 exemplar
What Is InnateandWhy : Commentson the Debat 1 exemplar
O Realismo de Rosto Humano 1 exemplar
Renovar a Filosofia Livro 1 1 exemplar
La vida mental de algunas máquinas 1 exemplar
Wittgenstein era um pragmatista? 1 exemplar
Verdade Reabilitada 1 exemplar
Causalidade Mental 1 exemplar
Information and the Mental 1 exemplar
La naturaleza de los estados mentales 1 exemplar
¿Es posible la semántica? 1 exemplar
How not to solve ethical problems 1 exemplar
La "corroborazione" delle teorie 1 exemplar
'A politics of hope' in TLS 4964, 22 May 1998 [review of Rorty's 'Achieving our country'] 1 exemplar
A Problem About Reference 1 exemplar
Ben-Menahem (ed) 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Understanding the Sick and the Healthy: A View of World, Man, and God, With a New Introduction by Hilary Putnam (1954) — Introdução, algumas edições — 72 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Putnam, Hilary
- Nome legal
- Putnam, Hilary Whitehall
- Data de nascimento
- 1926-07-31
- Data de falecimento
- 2016-03-13
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Arlington, Massachusetts, USA
- Causa da morte
- mesothelioma
- Locais de residência
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
France - Educação
- University of California, Los Angeles (Ph.D. ∙ Philosophy)
Central High School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Harvard University
University of Pennsylvania - Ocupações
- professor (philosophy)
philosopher
mathematician
computer scientist - Relações
- Putnam, Samuel (parent)
Steinitz, Rebecca (daughter-in-law) - Organizações
- American Philosophical Association (President ∙ Eastern Division)
Harvard University - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Prometheus Prize (2010)
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1965)
Membros
Críticas
Realismo del volto umano por Hilary Putnam
100 PUT 1
Through the thought experiment of "brain in a vat" and "twin earth" to refute Descartes' skepticism, and even investigate the dispute between realism and nominalism. The former regards the universality of things ( Universal) as a Platonic entity, which the latter denies its real existence. The presupposed transcendental perspective makes Putnam's "referential theory" self-paradoxical, and also makes this reductive absurdity argument based on Semantic Externalism appear to be split and self-defeating.… (mais)
Labor to get through. They virtually refuse ever to make their point. 80% of the book is approaching something like a point then saying “but that’s beyond the scope of this essay.”
No thoughts of interest are presented here. If you want to know what Dewey, James, and Pearce thought, read either the writers themselves or some other book. This book was SUCH a waste of time.
No thoughts of interest are presented here. If you want to know what Dewey, James, and Pearce thought, read either the writers themselves or some other book. This book was SUCH a waste of time.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 57
- Also by
- 19
- Membros
- 2,182
- Popularidade
- #11,743
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 6
- ISBN
- 147
- Línguas
- 10
- Marcado como favorito
- 4